[Ho Cheon-an: (random emoticon)]
[Wind Forest Inn: Ho ha.]
[Trouble in the World: Ho ha.]
[Three-Five Warrior: Outcast after the change.]
[Ho Cheon-an: The mountain is the mountain, and the water is the water. The mountain is the mountain, the water is the water.]
[Ho Cheon-an: Is this where it starts right after coming in?]
[Three-Five Warrior: Nak Su Moon Gang Young Myung.]
[Ho Cheon-an: The soft overcomes the strong, capable of overcoming.]
A proper martial arts game is extremely rare. So rare that even [Martial World] which came out ten years ago is still regarded as the latest game in martial arts forums and communities.
It was a masterpiece that stood out even among the many open-world games that were popular at the time, so it might realistically be the beginning and end of martial arts games at the same time.
Since the genre of martial arts is on the verge of extinction, no high-quality and fun martial arts games can emerge anymore.
Even I, who use the nickname Ho Cheon-an in the group chat, never thought I would play this game for ten years. I admit it’s a critically acclaimed masterpiece, but I never thought there wouldn’t be another martial arts game to switch to for over ten years.
The mere existence of a group chat is proof that the game is old. Who joins a game group chat these days? They were all fads from a long time ago.
I wonder if it’s just futile nostalgia, but there’s no other game that properly represents the martial arts genre except for [Martial World], so what can I do?
[Cheongsam and Garter: Yeong Yeong-mun Go Mi-rim.]
[Ho Cheon-an: Is there such a person?]
[Cheongsam and Garter: Ah.]
[Cheongsam and Garter: Must be a mode, sorry.]
[Wind Forest Inn: Ah, why wouldn’t you think Ho Cheon-an would know?]
[Three-Five Warrior: I’ve trained rigorously, so it can’t be wrong.]
[Three-Five Warrior: (randomly proud emoticon)]
[Rebirth Truck has entered the official Martial World group chat.]
[Wind Forest Inn: (eye-shaking emoticon)]
[Why Is There No Game Only For Me: A newbie… has arrived?]
[Rebirth Truck: (waving bears)]
[Lotus Pants Thief: The Martial World is not dead yet!]
[Rebirth Truck: Hey hey, I’m a newbie who just finished the ending.]
[Passing Jang San: Are we going for a raid after a while? Going? Not going? Not going?]
While the veterans in the group chat were tearing apart the newbie, I diverted my gaze to the computer screen. After roughly setting up a month’s worth of controls, I returned to the group chat to find it heated up.
[Rebirth Truck: But.]
[Rebirth Truck: Since earlier.]
[Rebirth Truck: What quiz are we doing?]
[Lotus Pants Thief: If you look at the character window, it says there’s realization.]
[Rebirth Truck: Ah, I did find that a bit hard to understand.]
[Rebirth Truck: It seems like characters in the game gain realization, but it still keeps being empty.]
[Wind Forest Inn: Yup.]
[Wind Forest Inn: Unlike usual martial arts, realization and group are separated here.]
[Wind Forest Inn: In martial arts novels, if you understand even a little of martial arts, it’s said you’ve gained a small realization, but in [Martial World]]
[Wind Forest Inn: It’s expressed as [Acquired the Principles of Unstudied].]
[Wind Forest Inn: Only one realization per character.]
[Three-Five Warrior: To be precise, as characters play the game, they obtain [groups] through various paths.]
[Three-Five Warrior: Among those groups, if a character acquires the group corresponding to their realization, they say they’ve achieved realization, which triggers some kind of flashy effect and announcement.]
[Three-Five Warrior: When you attain realization, you either gain traits, greatly boost stats or achievements, and break through limits.]
[Rebirth Truck: Wait, so if there’s only one realization per character, does that mean you have to wait until you get that?]
[Three-Five Warrior: That’s the standard way, but honestly the chances are absurd, so there’s a shortcut.]
[Three-Five Warrior: If you type [group] in the in-game chat, the character hears it and gains [realization].]
[Three-Five Warrior: It’s a kind of hidden piece.]
[Three-Five Warrior: By typing in the chat, the character becomes stronger, and of course everyone wants to use it.]
[Three-Five Warrior: Those too lazy to look it up would ask in the chat room.]
[Three-Five Warrior: After answering, it somehow evolved into quizzes over time.]
[Ho Cheon-an: When the difficulty reaches a certain level, it becomes a must-know feature, so it sticks in your memory.]
[Ho Cheon-an: It’s a tool for immediate character leveling.]
[Why Is There No Game Only For Me: TMI) Ho Cheon-an has a feature that lets you see the keywords for character realization.]
[Rebirth Truck: Oh, is there such an item?]
[Ho Cheon-an: The acquisition method is a spoiler, so I can’t say, but anyhow it’s an end-game item.]
[Why Is There No Game Only For Me: TMI) Ho Cheon-an’s achievement for obtaining it is only 0.001% achieved on the platform.]
[Yellow Sky Standing: By the way, wasn’t Ho Cheon-an the one who first organized and shared the Unstudied DB?]
[Ho Cheon-an: Ah, when was that… ]
[Ho Cheon-an: (more compliments, bear emoticon)]
[Lotus Pants Thief: LOL, asking for more praise for life achievements, LOL.]
[Rebirth Truck: Oh, so Ho Cheon-an is a master at Martial World?]
[Why Is There No Game Only For Me: Don’t know?]
[Three-Five Warrior: Not sure about being a master, but definitely a veteran LOL.]
[Cheongsam and Garter: For real LOL.]
[Lotus Pants Thief: For real LOL.]
[Ho Cheon-an: ?]
[Ho Cheon-an: Original members of the chat, 12th Ho?]
To inform the newbie of the dark history of the original members, I dug through my computer for a screenshot. It’s nice to see some life in the chat with the newbie around. Has there been this much energy in the chat this year?
Everyone seems excited about going for a raid after a long time.
[Rebirth Truck: Hmm, I see.]
[Rebirth Truck: Then it’s Ho Cheon-an that got chosen.]
[Three-Five Warrior: ?]
[Rebirth Truck: I wanted to enjoy it too, but I don’t have the time.]
[Rebirth Truck: But the Earth is nice for working.]
[Rebirth Truck: Information is easy to obtain.]
[Trouble in the World: (question mark emoticon)]
[Rebirth Truck: Then see ya.]
[Rebirth Truck left the official Martial World group chat.]
I blinked, but the message on my phone remained unchanged.
“Man, what a funny guy.”
[Three-Five Warrior: Wait, what?; What’s going on?]
[Wind Forest Inn: Be careful, you Ho-bung.]
[Wind Forest Inn: Didn’t they report cases of people taking information from public chat rooms to cause harm?]
[Trouble in the World: Be careful; you might be knocked over by a truck while walking.]
After observing the chaotic chat messages of the confused group members for a moment, I got up and drew back the curtains. I live on the third floor of an officetel. Due to the structure of the building, elevated on pillars for parking, it’s practically the fourth floor. Leaning against the iron bars of the veranda, as I surveyed the ground again, even if a truck came barreling at me, I didn’t think I would get hit.
‘Maybe I should be careful for a while, just in case.’
As I typed a thank you message for the concern from the chat members, promising to be cautious for a while, suddenly a shadow appeared, and I turned my head.
I saw a truck falling from the sky.
“What the hell…”
Why do I have to receive a Rebirth Truck delivery?
With that thought, my consciousness faded away.
